News article about uploading data

I thought this news article might be of interest: http://time.com/5495842/ibm-weather-forecasts/"IBM Wants to Use Your Data to Create Hyper-Accurate Weather Forecasts"..."“This is the first introduction of crowdsourced data, and to me, it’s
really opening a new era equivalent to what happened when we got
satellite data in the 1980s,” says Mary Glackin, VP of Weather Business
Solutions at IBM. “Cell phone pressures are the start of this, but one
could imagine data coming off of vehicles, smart buildings, even
wearables doing into the future.”"

The City of Los Angeles on Thursday filed suit against The Weather Company, alleging that it shared and profited from information collected by The Weather Channel app. IBM has denied wrongdoing. “The Weather Company has always been transparent with use of location data; the disclosures are fully appropriate, and we will defend them vigorously,” the company said in a statement about the suit. Other weather apps have also faced questions over their handling of users’ location data.